<p>What's Penn's policy on unweighted ranks? If my UW ranks puts me in the top 13%, but my weighted rank puts me in the top 10%, will Penn account for that? I go to a school where a lot of students will take easy courses to pad their UW GPAs...</p>
<p>anyone, bump, hello?</p>
<p>I don’t know the exact policy, but colleges realize that unweighted ranking is rarely accurate, precisely because of the students who take easy classes. That being said, your unweighted and weighted class rank isn’t significantly different.</p>
<p>Your application is evaluated holistically so they will probably look at both to get an idea of how you stand academically. It is however, very important that you took a challenging schedule in high school. Most kids in my high school who go to/got into Penn took the most rigorous schedule possible (all honors and APs) including myself.</p>
<p>This another one of those questions best answered by admissions office. Often on college’s admission pages they will state if they recalculate GPAs, use weighted or unweighted.</p>
<p>Just give the ranking that your school gives you. (Mines gives weighted) On the College application it asks you if it is a weighted or unweighted ranking. It rarely matters unless your school suffers from massive grade inflation in which case a weighted GPA strongly changes your position from an unweighted on.</p>